MOSCOW (MRC) -- R. D. Abbott Company, Inc. (RDA) has signed a new distribution agreement with the Tire and Specialty Rubber (TSR) business unit of Lanxess Corporation, expanding their working relationship to the entire USA, effective from 1 July 2015, as per GV.
Prior to this revised agreement, RDA represented Lanxess’ TSR product lines in the western USA.
The agreement includes the following trade names: X_Butyl (including regular butyl, chlorobutyl, bromobutyl, and ionomer) and Buna (including CoBR, NdBR, LiBR, ESBR, SSBR). On the same date, Lanxess affiliate Rhein Chemie Additives has ceased distribution of these product lines.
As MRC wrote earlier, in 2014, German specialty chemicals company Lanxess, the world’s largest synthetic rubber supplier, and Korean Hankook Tire signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to co-develop synthetic rubber technologies for high-performance tire. Under the agreement, the two companies is jointly studying the development of new high-performance synthetic rubber grades and applications that increase the performance of tires from early stages of product development.
Lanxess is a leading specialty chemicals company with sales of EUR 8.0 billion in 2014 and about 16,300 employees in 29 countries. The company is currently represented at 52 production sites worldwide. The core business of Lanxess is the development, manufacturing and marketing of plastics, rubber, intermediates and specialty chemicals.
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